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Katie DeMaio, a bright, ambitious, attractive young prosecutor in a small New Jersey town is recently widowed. A driving accident brings her to Westlake Hospital with minor injuries, where she sees--or thinks she sees--a familiar figure carrying a woman's body to his car in the middle of the night.... When the woman is found dead in her bed th... more »e next day and declared a suicide, Katie determines to find out the truth, and soon uncovers the hidden scandals and fears in the lives of a number of people who seem, on the surface, to be solid, respectable citizens. With brilliant skill, Mary Higgins Clark weaves the frightening story of a medical conspiracy that must be hidden at all costs, perhaps even that of murder. It builds toward a climax of overpowering intensity as Kate herself, again a patient in the hospital for a routine operation finds herself both the hunted and the hunter.« less